SAM FRANCIS ( )

SAM FRANCIS (1923 1994) 1923 Born Samuel Lewis Francis on 25 June to Samuel Augustus Francis, Sr. and Katherine Lewis Francis in San Mateo, California, USA 1935 Sam Francis s mother dies when he is twelve 1943 47 Attends University of California, Berkeley as pre-med student but is called for military service Trains to become a pilot but is injured in plane accident during Army Air Corps training (and subsequently suffers from spinal tuberculosis) and is hospitalised for years 1945 47 Begins painting while in hospital, first in Denver, Colorado at Fitzsimons Hospital, and then at Fort Miley Hospital in San Francisco, USA 1949 B.A., University of California, Berkeley, USA 1950 M.A., University of California, Berkeley, USA 1950 58 Lives and works in Paris, France and travels to Mexico, Japan, and Europe 1952 Championed by art critics Michel Tapié and Claude Duthuit (son-in-law of painter Henri Matisse) in Paris, France 1957 59 Extended travels and working periods in Bern, New York City, Mexico City, and Tokyo, while maintaining studio in Paris 1959 Rents additional studio in New York City to complete commissioned painting for the Chase Manhattan Bank Mural 1960 66 Lives and works in New York, Tokyo, Bern, and California 1961 Moves to Santa Monica, California where his permanent home is based, while maintaining the Arcueil studio in Paris until it is razed in 1983 1968 Receives Honorary Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, USA 1970 Establishes the Litho Shop in Santa Monica, California to print and publish his own lithographs 1973 74 Lives and paints primarily in Tokyo, Japan 1980 Becomes part of the Board of Trustees of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA 1982 Establishes temporary painting studio in San Leandro, California to complete the San Francisco Museum of Art Mural commission (completed in 1985) 1984 Establishes Lapis Press 1986 Completes commissioned ceiling mural for the Opera National, Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels, Belgium 1993 Installs large-scale painting, Dynamic Symmetry (1978), at the German Parliament building, Bonn, Germany Donates ten paintings to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA (accompanied by an exhibition) 1994 University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley creates Scholarship Award in Francis s name On 4 November, Sam Francis passes away in Santa Monica, CA, USA 2005 Documentary archives of the artist's estate begins acquisition process at the John Paul Getty Art Museum Research Institute Library, Los Angeles with coordination of the Sam Francis Estate and the Sam Francis Foundation Selected Solo Exhibitions 2016 17 Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Fort Worth, Texas, USA 2016 Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, USA 2015 16 Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA Samuel Vanhoegaerden gallery, Knokke, Belgium 2015 Van de Wege Fine Art, New York, USA 2014 Guy Pieters Gallery, Knokke, Belgium Museum Jan van der Togt, Amstelveen, the Netherlands Sam Francis: Five Decades of Abstract Expressionism from California Collections, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, USA; Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, USA Leslie Sacks Fine Art, Los Angeles, USA Galerie Iris Wazzau, Davos, Switzerland Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA S2 Gallery, Sotheby s, New York, USA

2013 Fondation Beijeler, Basel, Switzerland 2012 Iris Wazzau, Davos, Switzerland Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, USA Martin Lawrence Galleries, New York, USA PST, Berlin, Germany 2011 Robert Green Fine Arts, Mill Valley, USA Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, Switzerland Nantenchi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, USA Page Gallery, Seoul, Korea Galerie Thomas Modern, Munich, Germany 2010 Galerie Koch, Hannover, Germany Coskun Fine Art, London, UK Danubiana Art Museum, Bratislava, Slovak Republic Helly Nahmad Gallery, New York, USA 2009 Guy Pieters Gallery, Knokke, Belgium Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, UK L&M Arts, New York, USA Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Bielefeld, Germany Leslie Sacks Fine Art, Los Angeles, USA Smith Andersen North, San Rafael, USA American Contemporary Art Gallery, Munich, Germany College of the Canyons Art Gallery, Santa Clarita, USA Dominique Lévy Galleries, New York, USA 2008 Galleria Repetto, Acqui-Termi, Italy Galleria San Carlo, Milan, Italy Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, USA 2006 07 LC Galerie, Paris, France Robert Green Gallery, Mill Valley, USA Galerie Flintholm, Verster Skerninge, Denmark Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland 2005 Movimento Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy Kaare Berntsen, Oslo, Norway Leslie Sacks Fine Art, Los Angeles, USA Robert Sandelson Gallery, London, UK Gallery Wild, Frankfurt, Germany 2004 Museum Jan van der Togt, Amstelveen, the Netherlands Martin Lawrence Galleries, San Francisco, USA Venice Design Art Gallery, Venice, Italy Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Bielefeld, Germany Alanda Arte Contemporanea, Carrara, Italy Galerie Thomas, Munich, Germany Galleri GKM Siwert Bergström, Malmö, Sweden Baukunst Galerie, Cologne, Germany 2003 04 2003 Broadbent Gallery, London, UK Robert Sandelson Gallery, London, UK Ace Gallery, Beverly Hills, USA Artemis Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, USA Galerie Guy Pieters, Saint Paul de Vence, France 2002 03 Galerie Iris Wazzau, Davos, Switzerland Sam Francis, Idemitsu Museum, Tokyo, Japan, exhibition from their collection that travels to six museums in Japan through 2003: The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama; Kawamura Memorial Museum, Chiba; The Museum of Art, Ehime; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Iwaki City Art Museum, Fukushima; Oita Art Museum, Oita 2002 Galerie Andreas Baumgartl, Munich, Germany Lovers of Fine Arts Ltd., Gstaad, Switzerland 2001 Meyerovich Gallery, San Francisco, USA Baukunst Galerie, Cologne, Germany Galerie Guy Pieters, Saint-Paul, France Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK

Brian Gross Gallery, San Francisco, USA Lawing Gallery, Houston, USA 2000 Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri, USA Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Osaka and Tokyo, Japan Galleri GKM Siwert Bergström, Malmö, Sweden Bruk Kahan Gallery, Boca Raton, USA Richard Gray Gallery, New York and Chicago, USA Rayuela Galeria De Arte, Madrid, Spain Ikon Ltd., Santa Monica, USA Lawrence Rubin Greenberg Van Doren Fine Art, New York, USA Galleria il Gabbiano, Rome, Italy 1999 2001 Sam Francis: Paintings 1947 1990 (retrospective), Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA; the Menil Collection, Houston, USA; Konsthall Malmö, Malmö, Sweden; the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; Galleria Communale d Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, Italy 1999 (prints) Leslie Sacks Fine Art, Los Angeles, USA Robert Green Fine Arts, Mill Valley, USA Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen, Denmark Ikon, Ltd., Los Angeles, USA Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, USA Galerie Pascal Retelet, Saint Paul de Vence, France Baukunst Galerie, Cologne, Germany (prints) Pace Editions, New York, USA Galerie Loeper, Hamburg, Germany 1998 ACA Gallery, Munich, Germany Gallery Guy Pieters, Knokke, Belgium Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica, USA Galleria d Arte il Gabbiano, Rome, Italy Dorothy Blau Gallery, Bay Harbor Island, USA Thomas Segal Gallery, Baltimore, USA Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago and New York, USA 1997 Sam Francis: In New York, 1958 1960, Studies for the Chase Manhattan Bank Mural and Related Works, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, USA Musée d'arte, Mendrisio, Switzerland Galerie Retelet, St. Paul de Vence, France Sam Francis: The Archetypal Image, Frederick M. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, USA; Fundación Caja de Madrid, Madrid, Spain 1996 Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, USA Sogetsu Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, USA Gallery Guy Pieters, Knokke, Belgium Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin, Germany 1995 Les années Parisiennes 1950 1961, (reunited the three Basel Mural panels), Jeu de Paume, Paris, France Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, USA Grunwald/UCLA/Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Germany The Last Paintings of Sam Francis (152 small paintings painted June through August 1994, at his Santa Monica house studio), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA 1994 Long Fine Art, New York, USA Galerie Delaive, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Venice, CA, USA University of California, Berkeley, USA 1993 The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA Galerie Pudelko, Bonn, Germany Bobbie Greenfield Fine Art, Venice, Los Angeles, USA Michele Cohen Gallery, New York, USA

Ochi Gallery, Ketchum, USA Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, USA Galerie Iris Wazzau, Davos, Switzerland Retrospective, Kunst und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutchland, Bonn, Germany 1992 Galerie Daniel Papierski, Paris, France Museum van der Togt, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea 1991 James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, USA Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, USA Associated American Artists, New York, USA Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA Centre Regional d'art Contemporain Midi-Pyrenees, Toulouse-Labege, France Forty year retrospective, Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, Switzerland 1990 (prints) Associated American Artists, New York, USA Heland Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden (monotypes) Ogawa Art Foundation, Tokyo, Japan Ochi Gallery, Ketchum, USA Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK (prints) Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, USA 1989 Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, UK Sun Valley Center Gallery, Ketchum, USA Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, USA Cantor/Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, USA Knoedler Gallery, London, UK 1988 89 Sam Francis, Toyama Museum, Toyama, Japan; the Museum of Modern Art, Seibu Takanawa Karuizawa, Japan; the Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan; Ohara Museum of Art, Murashiki, Japan; Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan 1988 Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, USA Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, USA Galerie Seoul, Korea 1987 Knoedler Gallery, London, UK Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, Santa Barbara, USA Heland Thorden Wetterling Galleries, Stockholm, Sweden G.Dalsheimer Gallery, Baltimore, USA Galeria Eude, Barcelona, Spain Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, USA Galerie Pudelko, Bonn, Germany Lever/Meyerson Galleries, New York, USA 1986 Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, USA Le Maire de Paris, France 1985 Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, Switzerland Smith-Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, USA Hokin Gallery, Bay Harbor Isle, USA 1984 Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, Santa Barbara, USA Brooke Alexander, Inc., New York, USA Cantor/Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, USA Robert Elkon Gallery, New York, USA Thomas Babeor Gallery, La Jolla, USA Knoedler Gallery, London, UK Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, USA Steven Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, USA 1983 Nantenshi Gallery, Tokyo, USA (monotypes) 1981 Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

Ruth Schaffner Gallery, Santa Barbara, USA Faith and Charity in Hope Gallery, Idaho, USA Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, Switzerland Smith-Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, USA Fondation Maeght, St. Paul, France Studio Marconi, Milan, Italy (monotypes) Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA Art Attack Gallery, Idaho, USA John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, USA Travelling survey of works on paper, Art Museum Association of America 1980 Riko Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles, USA James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, USA Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, USA Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, USA Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, Switzerland Knoedler Gallery, London, UK L Abbaye de Sénanque, Centre International de Création Artistique, Gordes, France Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., USA Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul de Vence, France National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA 1979 Brooke Alexander, Inc., New York, USA Retrospective exhibition of works on paper, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA; travelled to Taiwan, Hong Kong, Manila, Korea, Japan under the U.S. International Communication Agency 1978 Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, USA Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, USA 1975 77 Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, USA Kornfeld and Klipstein, Bern, Switzerland Smith-Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, USA 1974 Minami Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Idemitsu Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan 1972 Stanford University Museum of Art, Palo Alto, USA Retrospective, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA; Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C., USA; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Texas, USA; Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, USA 1970 74 Idemitsu Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Nagoya American Center, Nagoya, Japan Fundación Eugenio Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela 1969 72 Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, USA 1969 71 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, USA Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, USA Galerie Kornfeld and Klipstein, Bern, Switzerland Gimpel Fils Gallery, London, UK Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, USA Robert Elkon Gallery, New York, USA Berlin Red, National Gallery of Art, West Berlin, Germany 1968 Minami Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Centre National d'art Contemporain, Paris, France Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland 1967 Retrospective, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA; University Art Museum, Berkeley, USA Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, USA Snow painting performance, Naibara, Japan 1966 Sky painting performance, Tokyo Bay, Japan 1961 64 Minami Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Kornfeld and Klipstein, Bern, Switzerland Galerie Benador, Zurich, Switzerland

1961 Esther Bear Gallery, Santa Barbara, USA 1959 61 Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, USA Minami Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Galerie Kornfeld und Klipstein, Bern, Switzerland Galerie Jacques Dubourg, Paris, France Arthur Tooth & Sons, London, UK 1959 Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, USA; San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, USA; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA 1952 58 Galerie Rive Droite, Paris, France Zoe Dusanne Gallery, Seattle, USA Gimpel Fils, Ltd., London, UK Galerie Ad Libitum, Antwerp, Belgium Galerie Kornfeld und Klipstein, Bern, Switzerland 1957 Gimpel Fils, Ltd, London, UK 1956 Martha Jackson Gallery, New York City, USA Galerie Rive Droite, Paris, France 1955 Galerie Rive Droite, Paris, France 1952 Galerie du Dragon, Paris, France Galerie Nina Dausset, Paris, France Selected Group Exhibitions 2016 17 Abstract Expressionism, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK 2016 Sam Francis Victor Vasarely: Order & Disorder, MA Galerie, Paris, France From Kandinsky to Pollock. The Art of the Guggenheim Collections, Firenze Palazzo Stozzi, Florence, Italy Kunst auf Papier - Art on Paper, Galerie Iris Wazzau, Davos, Switzerland 2015 16 La Nouvelle Présentation des Collections Modernes, 1905 1965, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France 2015 Picasso and The 20th Century Art Masterpieces from the Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Tokyo Station Gallery, Tokyo, Japan American Painters in Paris, Galerie Diane Pollignac, Paris, France Made in California, Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, MANA Contemporary, Jersey City, USA 2012 Jim Dine / Sam Francis, Master Draughtsman / Master Colourist, drawings etchings lithographs screen prints, Annandale Galleries, Sydney, Australia 2011 Master Works on Paper, Annandale Galleries, Sydney, Australia 2008 Fall Selections, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, USA 2002 Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, USA 1996 Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, USA 1993 The Usual Suspects, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, USA 1989 90 Abstract Expressionism, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, USA 1988 Abstract Work from the 1950s, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, USA 1979 Art in Progress, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel 1975 77 Art in Progress, Louisiana Museum of Art, Humlebaek, Denmark; Centre Pompidou, Paris France; Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden 1964 Documenta III, Kassel, Germany 1957 59 The New American Painting, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA 1956 12 Americans, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA Selected Public Collections Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California, USA de Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California, USA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, USA Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, USA Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California, USA Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California, USA Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California, USA Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California, USA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, USA University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California, USA Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, USA Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA

Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, Indiana, USA Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, USA New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana, USA Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts, USA Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan, USA Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, USA Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri, USA Hessel Museum of Art and CCS Galleries, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, USA Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, USA Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York, USA University at Buffalo Art Galleries, New York, USA Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, USA Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA Mint Museum Uptown, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA Dayton Art Institute, Ohio, USA Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma, USA Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, USA Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, USA Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, USA Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, USA Seattle Art Museum, Washington, USA Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., USA Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., USA Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin, USA Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin, USA Art Gallery of Ontario (Musée des beaux-arts de l Ontario), Toronto, Canada Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal), Montreal, Canada Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec City, Canada Albertina Kunst Museum Palais, Vienna, Austria Essl Museum Kunst der Gegenwart, Klosterneuburg/Vienna, Austria La Monnaie/De Munt, Brussels, Belgium Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark Museum Jorn, Silkeborg, Denmark Matti Koivurinta Foundation Art Collection at Aboa Vetus and Ars Nova, Turku, Finland Les Abattoirs Art moderne et contemporain, Toulouse, France Centre Pompidou, Paris, France Fonds national d art contemporain at Musée des beaux-arts de Rennes, Rennes, France Le LAAC (Lieu d Art et d Action Contemporaine), Dunkerque (Dunkirk), France Musée d art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble, France Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany Neue Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hannover, Germany Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany Museum Jan van der Togt, Amstelveen, the Netherlands Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, the Netherlands Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, the Netherlands Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland Berardo Collection, Museu de Arte Moderna, Sintra, Portugal Collection Meulensteen at Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum, Bratislava, Slovakia Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland Fondazione Marguerite Arp, Locarno, Switzerland Kunstmuseum Basel, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Switzerland Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland Tate, London, UK Ulster Museum, Belfast, UK Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka City, Japan Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Idemitsu, Japan Kawamura Memorial Museum of Arts, Sakura City, Japan Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan Museum of Modern Art, Otsu City, Shiga, Japan Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Japan Ohara Museum of Art, Kurashiki, Japan Okazaki City Mindscape Museum, Okazaki, Japan Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Karuizawa, Nagano, Japan Sogetsu Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Song Eun Arts and Cultural Foundation, Seoul, South Korea Selected Publications 2011 Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of Canvas and Panel Paintings (University of California Press, Berkeley and the Sam Francis Foundation); text by Debra Burchett-Lere 2009 Sam Francis: 1953 1959 (New York: L&M Arts); text by William C. Agee and Robert Pincus-Witten 2000 Sam Francis: The Edge (Richard Gray Gallery, New York & Chicago); text by William C. Agee 1999 Sam Francis, Paintings 1947 1990 (Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles); text by William C. Agee Sam Francis, Paintings and Works on Paper from the 1950s (Lawrence Rubin and Greenberg Van Doren Fine Art); text by William C. Agee 1998 Sam Francis: Elements and Archetypes (University of Washington Press); text by Michael Zakian 1997 Sam Francis: Blue Forms, 1959 1961 (Richard Gray Gallery, New York & Chicago) In New York, 1958 1960: Studies for the Chase Manhattan Bank Mural and Related Works (Manny Silverman Gallery); text by David Anfam 1995 Sam Francis: The Shadow of Colors (Edition Stemmle); edited by Ingrid Moessinger 1994 Sam Francis: 1923 1994 (Galerie Proarta); text by Malmberg and Roxana Pirovano 1993 Sam Francis (Edition Cantz); text by Pontus Hulton Sam Francis: 1964 1979 (Manny Silverman Gallery); text by Gerald Nordland Sam Francis (Galerie Pudelko); text by Christoph Pudelko 1992 Sam Francis (Editions Daniel Papierski); text by Yves Michaud The Prints of Sam Francis: A Catalogue Raisonné 1960 1990 (Hudson Hills Press); text by Connie W. Lembark 1988 Sam Francis, Metaphysics of the Void (Moos Book Publishing Ltd); text by Michel Waldberg 1987 Sam Francis: From The IDEMITSU collection (Ogawa Art Foundation and Yayoi Gallery); text by MAKOTO OOKA Sam Francis: 1959 1964 (Manny Silverman Gallery); text by Pontus Hulten & Robert Shapazian 1985 Sam Francis: Etchings, 1973 1985 (Galerie Kornfeld); by Sam Francis 1984 Aphorisms (The Lapis Press); by Sam Francis 1983 Sam Francis: Monotypes et Peintures (Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul De Vence); text by Jan Butterfield, Yves Michaud and Jean-Louis Prat 1980 Sam Francis, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, March 13 May 11, 1980 (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) 1979 Sam Francis: The Litho Shop 1970 1979 (Brooke Alexander, Inc.), text by George Page and Brooke Alexander 1975 Sam Francis (Harry N. Abrams, Inc.); text by Peter Howard Selz and Susan Einstein 1972 Sam Francis: Paintings 1947 1972 (Buffalo Fine Arts Academy); text by Robert T. Buck 1968 Sam Francis: Oeuvres 1949 1968 (Centre Nationale d Art Contemporain Paris) Selected Awards 1994 Distinguished Alumnus Award, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, USA 1983 Commandeur de l Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France